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• past participle of access.
• past tense form of access.

accessed

American  

[ak-sest] / ˈæk sɛst /

adjective

1. reached, contacted, entered, or visited.

   Lot 14 on Smoke Road is an easily accessed lot with great views, grass, and scattered trees.

   Your bibliography should include the URL of the accessed website.

2. obtained or made use of.

   She founded and ran one of the most accessed family counseling programs in the state.

3. Computers. (of data) retrieved for use by another program or application or for transfer from one part of a system to another.

   Data caching is a way of storing the most frequently accessed data in memory so it doesn’t need to be regenerated each time.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of access.

Other Word Forms

• unaccessed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of accessed

First recorded in 1870–75; access ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. ) for the adjective senses; access ( def. ) + -ed ¹ ( def. ) for the verb sense

Example Sentences

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accessed

It found that during tests conducted alongside Irregular, Claude had accessed three separate companies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Anthropic evaluated more than 141,000 "evaluation runs" and found that three different versions of its model, known as Claude, improperly accessed the systems of three unnamed organizations.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

In a March 2019 piece in the Daily Beast, De Becker said his team concluded that Saudi Arabia accessed and gained private information from Bezos’ phone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority says 1,405 young people accessed workplace experiences during its second year.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

At least one of the courtyards had been completely isolated and could only be accessed by climbing through a window.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss